Author: Alex Varley

Album & EP Reviews S 

Saturn ‘Ascending (Live in Space)’ CD/LP/DD 2014

10th September 20143rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2014, Alex Varley, Ascending (Live in Space), Blues Rock, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Proto-Metal, Review, Rise Above Records, Saturn

The amount of rock bands in Sweden taking their influences from the olde and doing something great with it is

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Live Reviews 

Church Of Misery / Sedulus / PIST @ Academy 3, Manchester 28/07/2014

5th August 201413th September 2019 Alex Varley Academy 3, Alex Varley, Church Of Misery, Live Review, Manchester, Phil Jenkins, Pist, Sedulus

Japanese doom mentalists Church Of Misery last played Manchester just two months prior to this trip at the more intimate

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Live Reviews 

Hellfest 2014 – Review By Alex Varley

17th July 201413th September 2019 Alex Varley Alex Varley, Bl'ast!, Black Sabbath, Blues Pills, Clisson, Clutch, Death To All, Deep Purple, Electric Wizard, HellFest, HellFest 2014, Impiety, Iron Maiden, Kadavar, Live Review, Nocturnus AD, Repulsion, Satan, Satan’s Satyrs, Spirit Caravan, Vivien Varga, Witch Mountain

Day One Surely by now the most talked about metal festival is France’s Hellfest which has built up a fierce

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Live Reviews 

Goatess / Serpent Venom / Sigiriya / Pist @ The Star & Garter, Manchester 09/05/2014

16th May 201420th September 2019 Alex Varley Alex Varley, Goatess, Lee Edwards, Live Review, Manchester, Pist, Serpent Venom, Sigiriya, Star & Garter

The debut outing for Goatess in Manchester got off to a rocky start, running almost two hours late due to

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Interviews R-Z 

Slough Feg: Alex Varley Questions Mike Scalzi About His Digital Resistance

24th April 201411th September 2019 Alex Varley Alex Varley, Digital Resistance, Interview, Metal Blade Records, Mike Scalzi, Slough Feg

Since their inception in 1990 Slough Feg have been a musical anomaly, creating a bold and refreshing take on heavy

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Manilla Road ‘Mystification’ CD Reissue 2014

22nd April 20143rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2014, Alex Varley, CD, Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, Manilla Road, Mystification, NWOBHM, Reissue, Review, Shadow Kingdom Records

There are few bands that have as strong a back catalogue as US heavy metal band Manilla Road. Having released

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Dread Sovereign ‘All Hell’s Martyrs’ LP/CD 2014

11th March 20143rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2014, Alex Varley, All Hell's Martyrs, Atmospheric, CD, Doom, Dread Sovereign, Heavy, LP, Review, Ván Records

When it was announced that Primordial mastermind A.A Nemtheanga had formed a doom band of the most ferocious kind, internet

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Articles 

Alex Varley Preview’s The 3 Days Of Brutality That Is HELLFEST 2014

10th March 20143rd September 2019 Alex Varley 1349, Acid King, Aerosmith, Alex Varley, Black Sabbath, Brutal Truth, Clisson, Clutch, Conan, Death To All, Electric Wizard, Gehenna, Godflesh, Gorgoroth, HellFest, HellFest 2014, Impiety, Iron Maiden, Kadavar, Spirit Caravan, Status Quo

Comprised of six stages and mastering the previously unfathomable feat of mixing together every major metal sub genre in to

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Grand Magus ‘Triumph And Power’ CD/LP/DD 2014

11th February 20143rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2014, Alex Varley, CD, Digital, Grand Magus, Heavy Metal, LP, Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Triumph And Power

As Sweden becomes the epicentre for modern heavy metal bands it seems that everyone wants to be donning denim and

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Avatarium – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2013

17th January 20143rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2013, Alex Varley, Atmospheric, Avatarium, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Leif Edling, LP, Nuclear Blast Records, Review, Self Titled

The so called ‘last album’ by Candlemass in 2012 was a harrowing reminder that the seemingly immortal bands so many

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Live Reviews 

Purson / Black Magician / Those Rotten Thieves @ The Roadhouse, Manchester 11/12/2013

19th December 201314th September 2019 Alex Varley Alex Varley, Black Magician, Lee Edwards, Live Review, Manchester, Purson, The Roadhouse, Those Rotten Thieves

Mid week gigs can turn into absolute travesties leading up to the dreaded Xmas period, with people feeling either too

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